The Colorado Buffaloes opened their season with a heart stopping win over North Dakota State University. Colorado’s 31-26 win featured two second half touchdowns and a defensive stand on a Hail Mary attempt as time expired.
However, it wasn’t all good news coming out of Boulder, CO.
Concerning Reports Surface After Colorado Buffaloes’ Win Over NDSU
Journalist William Rhoden highlighted a unique, but still very real issue facing the Colorado Buffaloes as they improved to 1-0 on the year:
Shedeur picked up where he left off from last season and that is good and bad news. Sanders plays a unique brand of hero ball and largely it has worked. He has thrown 100 touchdowns in his career and finished last season with 27 touchdowns and an impressive 69% completion percentage. But it comes at a cost.
Last season he was the most sacked quarterback in big time college football and took so many shots attempting to make plays that he was forced to miss the final game of the season.
On Thursday against North Dakota State, Sanders was sacked just once and kept plays alive. He also took a number of shots just as he released the ball. Will he be able to last an entire season playing his swashbuckling style of quarterback? And can Colorado win if Shedeur plays any other way?
After the game, Shedeur was criticized by his dad, Coach Prime, for launching a long pass to LaJohntay Wester, in the fourth quarter when the offense should have been running out the clock. But Sanders rationalized that his son was simply trying to be a good teammate by allowing Wester to get in on the action on a night when Hunter and Jimmy Horn Jr. were having big nights.
“Shedeur is such a good kid, sometimes it costs him because at the end of the game, we just want to run the ball,” Sanders said, rationalizing his son’s poor judgement.
The relationship between Sanders and his sons, Shedeur and Shilo, has been the most fascinating aspect of the Coach Prime phenomenon at Jackson State and now at Colorado. Sanders has coached his sons at every level of football and in his candid moments Sanders admits that the line between father and coach has often blurred.
This is why I’d like to see Prime coach after Shedeur and Hunter — his adopted son — leave for the NFL. Only then will we get an accurate picture of who Sanders truly is as coach, though I’m not so sure that is high up on Prime’s list of priorities. Coaching his sons has been such a unique experience that life after they go may be anti-climactic.
But there will be time enough for that conjecture.
One thing is certain, the Colorado Buffaloes will be heavily criticized and praised all season long. Colorado has suddenly become one of the most covered teams in the Nation. Of course, head coach Deion Sanders is a huge reason for that.
Sanders has an opportunity to prove himself to be more than a salesman who promotes his program primarily. His goal is to prove that he is a tactician who can match wits with the best coaches in the nation.
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